Data Practices: Making Up a European People
The book develops a conception of data practices to analyze findings from collaborative ethnographic multisite fieldwork as part of a five-year project.
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Data Subjects: Calibrating and Sieving
Who are the subjects of data practices? How do data practices configure the capacities of subjects to become part of a population?
Statistician Subjects: Differentiating and Defending
We consider how the statistician subject is being shaped, and the profession of national statistician repositioned, through professionalising practices.
Doing a Transversal Method: Developing an Ethics of Care in a Collaborative Research Project
We depart from some conceptual presuppositions of methodological cosmopolitanism to define a transversal method.
Citizen Data and Trust in Official Statistics
In a time of alternative facts, what constitutes legitimate knowledge and expertise are major political sites of contention and struggle.
Data Scientists: A New Faction of the Transnational Field of Statistics
We discuss how data science as a field and a profession came into being in relation to but also as a critique of existing ones such as statistics and statisticians.
Citizen Data and Official Statistics: Background Document to a Collaborative Workshop
This working paper was written in preparation for a collaborative workshop organised for statisticians, social scientists, and app designers.
Transcending Methodological Nationalism Through a Transversal Method? On the Stakes and Challenges of Collaboration
This paper reflects on the challenges of doing collaborative ethnography in a research project (ARITHMUS) that studies the enactment of populations through statistics.